Barry Gardiner Quotes

Necessity is the mother of taking chances.

If everyone played it safe, we wouldn't get anywhere.

Nothing risque, nothing gained.

To achieve truly important things you have to be willing to put your personal reputation on the line …

The pioneers get all the arrows.

Leaders must go ahead even when moving ahead is controversial. You must be ahead of time, because if you want to represent the status quo, what do you need leaders for?

I think if you're not scared, you're not doing your job right.

As stars, we need to take risks, and I was up for those challenges.

Every day I do something that freaks me out.

If you worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on.

Anytime we step out boldly to make changes, we take a chance that we might fail. But the only way to get better is to try.

Unwillingness to risk failure is always there, but it gets harder when you feel you have more to lose.

It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution.

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.

Sometimes the things that scare me are the things I'm drawn to: moving to London, L.A., New York; marrying, having a kid. In order to live a full life, sometimes you have to do things that scare you.

You've got to bumble forward into the unknown.

It might be scary because you're taking a risk, but at the end of the day you can say you tried.

The riskiest thing we can do is just maintain the status quo.

A lot of people refuse to do things because they don't want to go naked, don't want to go without guarantee. But that's what's got to happen. You go naked until you die.

We really only have two choices. Play it safe, or take a chance. For me, pulling back because of fear has always made me feel worse.

I think it's important to take chances.

Life is a risk.

Well as giraffes say, you don't get no leaves unless you stick your neck out.

Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.

Risk isn't a word in my vocabulary. It's my very existence.